Man and his culture : psychoanalytic anthropology after "Totem and taboo"

by: Muensterberger, Warner

Publication date: 1970

Topics: Ethnopsychology, Psychoanalysis and anthropology, Personality and culture

Publisher: New York : Taplinger Publishinhg Co.

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

I. Theory. On the cultural determinants of individual development / Warner Muensterberger -- The psychoanalytic interpretation of culture / Géza Róheim -- Totem and taboo: a reappraisal / Derek Freeman -- On the biopsychological determinants of social life / Warner Muensterberger -- Concepts of normal behaviour in the light of psychoanalysis / Alan W. Fraser -- Normal and abnormal: the key concepts of ethnopsychiatry / George Devereux -- II. Field Work. Dream analysis and field work in anthropology / Géza Róheim -- Play analysis with Normanby Island children / Géza Róheim -- Character analysis based on the behavior patterns of 'primitive' Africans / Paul Parin and Fritz Morgenthaler -- Mohave orality: an analysis of nursing and weaning customs / George Devereux -- III. Culture and personality. Some psychoanalytic comments on 'culture and personality' / Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris and Rudolph M. Lowenstein -- Comments on anthropology and the study of complex cultures / Sidney Axelrad -- Orality and dependence: characteristics of southern Chinese / Warner Muensterberger -- Is the Oedipus complex universal? The Jones-Malinomski debate revisited and a south Italian 'nuclear complex' / Anne Parsons

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-389.) and index